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PILOT-SCALE INCINERATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS FROM THE DRAKE CHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE
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King, C., J. Lee, AND L. Waterland. PILOT-SCALE INCINERATION OF CONTAMINATED SOILS FROM THE DRAKE CHEMICAL SUPERFUND SITE. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-93/047 (NTIS PB93163004), 1993.
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A series of pilot-scale incineration tests were performed at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Incineration Research Facility to evaluate the potential of incineration as an option to treat contaminated soils from the Drake Chemical Superfund site in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. he soils at the Drake site are reported to be contaminated to varying degrees with various organic constituents and several hazardous constituent trace metals. he purpose of the test program was to evaluate the incinerability of selected site soils in terms of the destruction of contaminant organic constituents and the fate of contaminant trace metals. ll tests were conducted in the rotary kiln incineration system at the IRF. est results show that greater than 99.995 percent principal organic hazardous constituent (POHC) destruction and removal efficiencies (DRE) can be achieved at kiln exit gas temperatures of nominally 816 degrees C (1,500 degrees F) and 538 degrees C (1,000 degrees F). omplete soil decontamination of semivolatile organics was achieved; however, kiln ash levels of three volatile organic constituents remained comparable to soil levels. one of the soils tested, or the kiln ash resulting from their incineration, would be considered a toxicity characteristic (TC) hazardous waste due to its leachable trace metal content.
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